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This is a list of archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites . [ 1 ]
After the 2006 war, conservation work at Lebanon's historic sites began in October that year. [176] The ruins at Baalbek were not directly hit by Israeli bombing but the effects of blasts during the conflict toppled a block of stones at the Roman ruins and existing cracks in the temples of Jupiter and Bacchus were feared to have widened. [176]
[3] In 1984 the ruins at Baalbek were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [1] Preservation of the site began in the 1990s following the end of the war. The German Archaeological Institute's Orient Department has done a number of archaeological excavations and research on The Temple of Bacchus and the entire temple complex. [4]
The blocks known as the Trilithon (the upper of the two largest courses of stone pictured) in the Temple of Jupiter Baal. The Trilithon (Greek: Τρίλιθον), also called the Three Stones, is a group of three horizontally lying giant stones that form part of the podium of the Temple of Jupiter Baal at Baalbek.
The city has many ancient sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome, and was added as a whole to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1984. [2] The historian Ernest Renan noted that "One can call Tyre a city of ruins, built out of ruins". [3] [4] Tyre is the fifth largest city in Lebanon after Beirut, Tripoli, Sidon, and Baalbek. [5]
This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Indiana, in the United States. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories ...
Ancient cemeteries in Lebanon (3 P) Archaeological sites in Nabatieh Governorate (1 P) B. Berytus (1 C, 9 P) Bronze Age sites in Lebanon (24 P) I.
Archaeology of Lebanon includes thousands of years of history ranging from Lower Palaeolithic, Phoenician, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and Crusades periods. Overview of Baalbek in the late 19th century Archaeological site in Beirut Greek inscription on one of the tombs found in the Roman - Byzantine necropolis, Tyre Trihedral Neolithic axe or pick ...